Travel Tips Blog and Statistics
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90 Countries Open Again to Americans
As of writing, US residents could visit 90 countries and counting. More areas open almost daily now. As the vaccine rolls out and borders open, there are 1,000’s of travelers ready to go. A recent survey of experts from a national travel agency found that 1/2 of their clients had already booked a next trip or are planning it.
Hard to believe after all these months, that travel is tip toeing. We can dream again. We can plan again. We can smile behind a mask.…
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7 Travel Needs Senior Women Forgot While Home Bound
If you are a senior woman who is homebound and has not traveled since early 2020, here are 7 things senior women travelers probably forgot. These come from The Women’s Travel Group
Check your passport for expiration. The passport office is still slow on renewals.
Your hair is now grey as in this Huffington Post by Rohina Sehar; you went ‘au natural’ Get a new passport photo.
Check your Global Entry and TSA Pre Check. Both expire. If you did not fill in the online application, GE does not have an email to notify you.…
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Post Pandemic Super Cheap Celebration Trip
Make your post pandemic super cheap celebration trip happen with The Women’s Travel Group.
Can’t afford an airline upgrade? Buy a day pass to the private airline club and enjoy the ambiance.
Research the best chocolate shop in Paris: Patrick Roger. Drop by for a chunk on our Paris trip where we also stay in a Royal Palace!
Down a split of French champagne (two small glasses). Supermarkets in Paris sell it; here is our favorite.
Your home for Bubbly and More Never had a massage?…
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Travel Addiction: Why Women?
For a travel addict 2020 was deeply painful and depressing. Personally a sighting of a suitcase brings tears. In The Women’s Travel Group are many travel addicts reading this post. Here is the story of others just like me and probably you.
For me addiction started at St Agnes Public Library, 444 Amsterdam Avenue, in a then dangerous NY neighborhood.
Where it Startedl: The Public Library The itch came from The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.…
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Travel will help you lose weight.
Travel will help you lose weight. Look at the bathroom scale and scream. Most of us cooked and ate a mountain of food since March 2020. We now begin to plan travel for 2021. There is a nasty realization that our travel clothes are tight or worse: do not fit.
Tuscan gelato It is a mystery, but most women lose weight when traveling. Even when in gastronomic Paris or carb-laden Florence, we drop pounds. The first reason is we walk.…
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No More Peacocks on Planes
No more pets on planes or peacocks in the middle seat. The Department of Transportation determined that planes are not required to recognize emotional support animals (ESA’s) as service animals. In future only dogs that fit under the seat in front of you are flyable. No peacocks, ponies or other large four legged friends. Simplifying: this means that if you bring a dog on a plane you will need to pay a fee. ESA’s were free of charge. Service animals for instance for the blind are regulated differently.…
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Change Your Life with Travel Thank You’s
Change your life with Travel and be even more Thankful.
…Day of the Dead, Mexico.
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Too much TV; not enough Boomer Women’s Travel
Admit it, you watch television more than before the pandemic. And you probably begin earlier, say around 5PM? Every other ad tells you, that seniors are needy, forgetful, have skin problems and are too frail to push a swing or stir cake batter. Your hair is falling out and your glow is gone. Moreover you sweat too much and your jeans are too tight. Too much TV and not enough travel.
Do not give in to marketing telling you who you are. …
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Boomers Busted
Aren’t we Boomers Busted, and sick and tired of being home??? Boomers are not traveling and are told every day to be afraid. We are looked upon as future nursing home residents. We are warned a mask is not sufficient; we must self isolate and remain lonely.. We are bombarded with sad even frightening images on television which are timed to be seen by non working (ie retired) viewers. The iconic scare ad is still streamed: it is the I’m falling and I can’t get up?…
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A Senior Flyer with Pre-existing Conditions?
Let’s start with who she is: a senior flyer with pre existing conditions, along plus a yen for travel. She liked adventure so much that she left a solid finance job and started The Women’s Travel Group in 1992. This person is me ad I have two pre existing conditions. In fact, my 2 pre x conditions are fewer than most of you have.
The two pre existing conditions are my two sons. They are in their 40’s living comfortable safe lives with good families and good jobs.…
